Joe Friend
Designing software and loving it.
I haven't posted here for a very long time and I can't honestly promise that I'm going to get any...
Date: 04/28/2008
I'm now on a new project, so for the time being I'm turning off the ability to contact me via this...
Date: 12/07/2006
The Microsoft Word team needs your help! As many of you know, we have changed the look of the...
Date: 08/16/2006
Jennifer Michelstein is a program manager on the Microsoft Office Word team who focuses on academic...
Date: 07/13/2006
Werner Vogels is the CTO for Amazon.com. This session is quite interesting. My favorite bit was the...
Date: 06/30/2006
Attending Gnomedex for the second year in a row. Guess that really labels me as a geek.
Date: 06/30/2006
A nice complement from Guy Kawasaki on the blog feature in Word 2007. I was a pretty hardcore Mac...
Date: 06/09/2006
By Stuart J Stuple One of the things that I love about Word 2007 is that many existing features are...
Date: 06/08/2006
Zeyad has posted more information on the XHTML output from Word's new blog feature: Word XHTML -...
Date: 06/08/2006
By Stuart J Stuple Mastering Word isn’t about understanding the architecture or the intent of the...
Date: 06/05/2006
Zeyad has more details on the XHTML output of the blog feature. His latest post focuses on...
Date: 06/04/2006
I didn't mean to disappear. Last weekend's long break for Memorial Day broke my stride. I had a...
Date: 06/04/2006
No wonder our servers were having trouble keeping up with capacity. As of this afternoon we've seen...
Date: 05/26/2006
Have you downloaded Office 2007 yet? Once you installed Office 2007 don't forget that we'd love to...
Date: 05/25/2006
Some of you have encountered problems successfully downloading, registering or installing Beta 2. As...
Date: 05/24/2006
As I promised, we are posting details of the HTML output spec for the blog feature and are...
Date: 05/24/2006
Beta 2 is officially released and is available for download right now. Drop what you're doing and...
Date: 05/23/2006
The Word team is lucky to have a whole host of very talented people working on it. This is the first...
Date: 05/22/2006
I've been running Vista on my work desktop PC for several weeks now. I've got to admit that I'm...
Date: 05/19/2006
In general, I prefer to sit back and watch the comments come in and respond to them in future blog...
Date: 05/18/2006
Every post you make as a blogger can be a huge learning experience. In Friday's post on the new Word...
Date: 05/16/2006
If you haven't already, now is a great time to sign up for Beta 2 of Office 2007. Just go to the...
Date: 05/12/2006
I returned to Microsoft (after a 7 year hiatus) in late 2003 just as the Office 2007 effort was...
Date: 05/11/2006
I'm amazed by some bloggers ability to write tons of blog posts. Jensen, Dave, Brian, and all the...
Date: 05/10/2006
Okay, I suck as a blogger. No way to deny it. My last post (from 11/27/05) ended with "More...
Date: 02/16/2006
This is a common question for all of the Microsoft Office applications, but particularly so for...
Date: 11/27/2005
If you haven’t made your way to Brian Jones’ blog, do so immediately. He’s announced some very...
Date: 11/22/2005
Okay, okay. Office 12 beta 1 shipped. I’ve procrastinated as long as possible, but now I’ve really...
Date: 11/21/2005
Now that Microsoft Watch has linked to my blog I really must get things going. Shortly after the...
Date: 10/31/2005
It's time to get this blog jump started. Best laid plans of mice and men and all. But first a little...
Date: 09/29/2005
The Office 12 Preview Site now has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to so that you can get the...
Date: 09/13/2005
Well, the news is out. If you watched the PDC keynote this morning you know that Office 12 is a huge...
Date: 09/13/2005
Not much can be said now, but in just a couple weeks all sorts of great news will be coming out...
Date: 09/02/2005